What is "chinked"

Usage examples of "chinked".

Bits and buckles chinked as he grappled for a hold, missed, and received a second chop in the ribs.

On its edge stood Rafe Enoch's house, built wigwam-style of big old logs leaned together and chinked between with clay over twigs.

And then the Mouser grew small as Skwee, too, and ran under the bed and fell into a chute that darkly swiftly slid him, not into a dark hold of sacked or loose delicious grain, but into the dark, spacious, low-ceilinged pleasance of a subterranean rat-metropolis, lit by phosphorus, where robed and long-skirted rats whose hoods hid their long faces moved about mysteriously, where rat-swords clashed behind the next pillar and rat-money chinked, where lewd female rats danced in their fur for a fee, where masked rat-spies and rat-informers lurked, where everyone -- every-furry-one -- was cringingly conscious of the omniscient overlordship of a supernally powerful Council of Thirteen, and where a rat-Mouser sought everywhere a slim rat-princess named Hisvet-sur-Hisvin.

The goblets chinked faintly, the tray began to slide, but she got her head under its center again with a swift sidewise ducking movement, and then began to go with long fearful steps around the horrid tile as far as she could to the right, so that the edge of the tray was hardly a finger's-breadth from the wall.

By the man pounded, and as he ran he chinked like a well-filled purse that is tossed to and fro.

And then the Mouser grew small as Skwee, too, and ran under the bed and fell into a chute that darkly swiftly slid him, not into a dark hold of sacked or loose delicious grain, but into the dark, spacious, low-ceilinged pleasance of a subterranean rat-metropolis, lit by phosphorus, where robed and long-skirted rats whose hoods hid their long faces moved about mysteriously, where rat-swords clashed behind the next pillar and rat-money chinked, where lewd female rats danced in their fur for a fee, where masked rat-spies and rat-informers lurked, where everyone—every-furry-one—was cringingly conscious of the omniscient overlordship of a supernally powerful Council of Thirteen, and where a rat-Mouser sought everywhere a slim rat-princess named Hisvet-sur-Hisvin.

The gaps between the corkscrewed logs were chinked with wadded reeds and moss, with plastered mud over it.

We mixed grass , moss, and mud, and chinked the gaps between the logs.

The neck of the bottle chinked against the lip of hi s wineglass as he poured.

Most folk, they had separate smokehouses—vented or chinked tight, that was a matter of taste.

Ones bare an close cropped to accommodate mail, and others fashionably coife~ Earrings swung, and jewelry chinked, as every face trained on th Prince of the Light.

Glasses were quickly filled, and chinked, and filled again, as the couple moved round the dining room, happily greeting their guests.